The ancient Egyptians knew ways to preserve dead bodies from decay.

古埃及人懂得保存尸体，使之不会腐烂的方法。

Now I have them, imperishable at least for my lifetime, with the inexplicable added loveliness that true art gives to reality.

现在我拥有了它们， 至少在我的一生中都不会腐烂， 真正的艺术赋予现实的莫名其妙的额外可爱。

Stone does not decay, and so the tools of long ago have remained when even the bones of the men who made them have disappeared without trace.

石头是不会腐烂的。因此，尽管制造这些工具的人的骨头早已荡然无存，但远古时代的石头工具却保存了下来。

92. Stone does decay, and so tools of long ago have remained when even the bones of the man who made them have disappeared without trace.

92。石头不会腐烂，所以以前的(石器)工具能保存下来，虽然它们的制造者已经消失的无影无踪。

Economics entered . It is possible to turn out in quantity a bland , impersonal, practically imperishable substance more or less resembling , say cheese ---at lower cost than cheese .

经济学起作用了。用低于生产奶酪的成本生产出大量淡而无味的，没有特色 的，几乎是永远不会腐烂的，或多或少像奶酪的物质，这是可能的。